DARK AGES AMERICA

This is the Blog for MORRIS BERMAN, the author of "Dark Ages America". It includes current publications and random thoughts about U.S. Foreign Policy, including letters and reactions to publications from others.
A cultural historian and social critic, MORRIS BERMAN is the author of "Wandering God" and "The Twilight of American Culture". Since 2003 he has been a visiting professor in sociology at Catholic University of America in Washington, DC.
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April 07, 2017

SSIG Is Back!

Good news, Wafers: Spinning Straw Into Gold is finally back online:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1635610532/ref=sr_1_21?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1491540168&sr=1-21&keywords=morris+berman
Given the vagaries of American publishing these days, it took forever, but it is at long last back in print. If you didn't buy it way back in 2013, here's an opportunity to purchase the new improved edition (with almost identical content).
One thing did, however, get lost in translation, and this is a first for me: the Customer Reviews got wiped out when the book went offline in 2013, and cannot be retrieved. There were something like 21 reviews; if I remember correctly, something like 18 were very positive, and something like 3 very negative. Since Amazon cannot restore this lost material, I want to make an appeal to those of you who did write a review way back when to rewrite and repost it again, if that's at all possible. I realize that you are not likely to still have your original review in your possession, but perhaps you could skim your copy of the book as a reminder, and then send in something to Amazon based on your memory or impression. I realize this is a strange thing to ask, but inasmuch as Amazon did permanently remove the previous set of Customer Reviews, there isn't much else I can do at this point.
I thank you all, and for the 1st or 2nd time--happy reading!
-mb

About Me

Morris Berman is well known as an innovative cultural historian and social critic. He has taught at a number of universities in Europe and North America, and has held visiting endowed chairs at Incarnate Word College (San Antonio), the University of New Mexico, and Weber State University. During 1982-88 he was the Lansdowne Professor in the History of Science at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. Berman won the Governor’s Writers Award for Washington State in 1990, the Rollo May Center Grant for Humanistic Studies in 1992, and the Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity (from the Media Ecology Association) in 2013. He is the author of a trilogy on the evolution of human consciousness–-The Reenchantment of the World (1981), Coming to Our Senses (1989), and Wandering God: A Study in Nomadic Spirituality (2000)–and in 2000 his Twilight of American Culture was named a “Notable Book” by the New York Times Book Review. Dr. Berman relocated to Mexico in 2006, and during 2008-9 was a Visiting Professor at the Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico City.